(n.) A name given to several American trees and shrubs of the same genus (Aesculus) as the horse chestnut.
(n.) A cant name for a native in Ohio.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Buckeye Firearms Association offered this class for teachers who wanted to learn how to effectively use a gun against an intruder to their school.
(2) Buckey-Irvine added: “Our actions in disbanding the club demonstrate the seriousness of the situation, and our commitment to challenging cultures that allow misogyny, sexism or homophobia to exist.” The decision met with approval from fellow students.
(3) During the break at a football game between the Ohio State Buckeyes and Rutgers, the band performs a classic rock themed act, where they arrange themselves into rock and roll themed shapes while playing their instruments.
(4) Vee Sanford had scored the go-ahead layup for the Dayton Flyers with less than four seconds remaining straight after Craft had given the Buckeyes a late lead.
(5) The 2014 NCAA March Madness tournament opened with an enthralling upset that saw the sixth-seeded Ohio State Buckeyes beaten by their neighbours from Dayton.
(6) Slattery’s is to his football teams – the Ohio State University Buckeyes and the Cleveland Browns.
(7) Instead it was a close affair with a remarkable ending as Aaron Craft’s failed attempt to answer Vee Sanford's game-winning shot with seconds left on the clock ensured that the Buckeyes would be the tournament's first casualty.
(8) Updated at 3.27pm GMT 2.46pm GMT Ohio, Ohio, Ohio : the Columbus Dispatch has a new poll that shows it remains Obama's by a wafer-thin margin: The final Dispatch Poll shows Obama leading 50% to 48% in the Buckeye State.
(9) RYAN in IOWA: Bus tour continues with a town hall in Clinton at 9:10 CT and stops in Muscatine at 11:50 CT and Burlington at 2:50 CT. MICHELLE in OHIO: On the first day of early voting in the Buckeye State, the first lady leads a 2 p.m. rally in Cincinnati.
(10) The sheer number of teachers applying for the Buckeye Firearms Association seminar belies the fact that, when nearly 11,000 teachers were surveyed nationwide a month after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, 72.4% of teachers said that they would not bring a gun to school even if they could.
Chestnut
Definition:
(n.) The edible nut of a forest tree (Castanea vesca) of Europe and America. Commonly two or more of the nuts grow in a prickly bur.
(n.) The tree itself, or its light, coarse-grained timber, used for ornamental work, furniture, etc.
(n.) A bright brown color, like that of the nut.
(n.) The horse chestnut (often so used in England).
(n.) One of the round, or oval, horny plates on the inner sides of the legs of the horse, and allied animals.
(n.) An old joke or story.
(a.) Of the color of a chestnut; of a reddish brown color; as, chestnut curls.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a randomized placebo controlled parallel double blind study on 40 patients suffering from venous edema in chronic deep vein incompetence, the edema-reducing effect of horse chestnut seed extract vs. placebo, being the main test variable, was demonstrated by hydroplethysmography to be statistically significant.
(2) An undulating lightweight roof is supported by 211 narrow steel columns, sheltering a glass box holding the cafe and shop, and a chestnut timber-covered box holding the displays.
(3) Serves 4 100g butter, at room temperature 150g flour 50g ground almonds 30g suet 1 egg yolk 50g cooked chestnuts, chopped 5 tbsp chopped fresh thyme Salt and black pepper For the leeks 1kg leeks, trimmed 100g butter Salt and pepper 200ml double cream 1 tsp nutmeg 1 To make the crumble topping, work the butter into the flour until it resembles coarse breadcrumbs, then add the ground almonds and suet.
(4) A viral double-stranded (ds)RNA associated with reduced virulence (hypovirulence) and the accompanying biological control of the chestnut blight fungus, Cryphonectria parasitica, was shown recently to contain two contiguous coding domains designated ORF A and ORF B.
(5) Grilled cuttlefish on a bed of chestnut purée comes dramatically drizzled with black squid ink and shredded fried leek, while the innocuous-sounding champi con foie conceals mushroom, foie gras, creamy alioli (garlic mayonnaise) and a slick of salsa verde.
(6) The ash dieback fungus found in East Anglia last week is just the latest invader to pose a serious threat to UK trees, and government ecologists say that more than 3m larch trees as well as thousands of mature oaks and chestnuts have been felled in the past three years to prevent similar fatal plant diseases from spreading out of control.
(7) Boyle loves her physical makeover: the glossy, chestnut hair that replaced the grey, and the posh frocks.
(8) We have synthesized and mapped a cDNA library representing the one major dsRNA element associated with hypovirulence in strain NB58 of the chestnut blight fungus, Cryphonectira (=Endothia) parasitica, which was isolated from recovering chestnut trees in New Jersey, U.S.A.
(9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Joey Chestnut is widely favored to win this year's International Hot Dog Eating Contest again.
(10) The Nature's Calendar project invites people across the country to log their first sightings of autumnal tints on ash, beech, field maple, horse chestnut, oak, rowan, silver birch and sycamore trees.
(11) Application of the method developed by Bouveng for the location of O-acetyl groups to all four O-acetylated xylans obtained in this series of investigations by dimethyl sulphoxide extraction showed that those from sweet chestnut and wych elm, under the same conditions of incubation, lost: 74.2 and 43.4% of acetyl groups respectively, at C-2; 58.0 and 28.5% of acetyl groups respectively at C-3; 41.8 and 82.2% of acetyl groups respectively at C-2 and C-3.
(12) Let the melted chocolate cool slightly, then mix in the cocoa powder mixture and stir it into the chestnut batter.
(13) The aminoacid content of supplemented chestnut formula was lower than that of cow's milk and soy bean, but equal to that of human milk and as its essential aminoacid ratio was high, the infant's development was normal.
(14) Current research has focused on the composition of commercially used chestnut tannin extracts so as to provide a quantitative basis for studies of reactions, structure-property relationships, and applications of chestnut tannin extract.
(15) Once boiled and milled by rural Italians to make flour for baking, the chestnut formed the mainstay of diets in poorer communities as a substitute for cereals, with production reaching 829,000 tonnes in 1911 before the postwar economic boom boosted spending power.
(16) The prime minister's intervention today, in which he disinterred the hoary old chestnut of householders using "reasonable force" to defend their property, signals the beginning of a return of a more traditional Tory law and order agenda.
(17) Chestnut pulp is recommended as an alternative to soybean in the treatment of lactose intolerance and cow's milk allergy.
(18) A set of isogenic strains of Cryphonectria parasitica, the chestnut blight fungus, was tested for the presence and amounts of cutinase activity.
(19) The survey is good fun, discarding old chestnuts such as washing-up and dusting in favour of fresher nuggets such as: who organises playdates?
(20) As cheap Chinese chestnuts flood the market, Italian harvests have plunged by 70% since 2005 to 18,000 tonnes this year due to the arrival from China of a deadly wasp, Dryocosmus kuriphilus , that damages trees by laying eggs in them.